Money and politics:GOP pressed on redistricting

4:37 PM,
Sep. 4, 2013

Written by

Bill Lueders
Commentary

A remarkable advocacy campaign is happening in Wisconsin, involving media outlets, nonprofit groups and engaged citizens. They want to change - or at least discuss - how the state redraws voter boundaries .

Two mostly Democrat-backed bills, AB 185 and SB 163, would strip this task from politicians and give it to the Legislative Reference Bureau, a nonpartisan state service agency. This is similar to how redistricting is done in Iowa.

Wisconsin's last redistricting, after the 2010 Census, was done in secret and cost taxpayers more than $2 million. Ruling Republicans strategically carved ...